Maintaining CSS with version control

- [Instructor] Inevitably, there will come a point…in your coding career, if it hasn't already happened,…that you delete or otherwise misplace some bit of code.…It's a sickening feeling to lose code…that you've spent a lot of time on.…Well, there's a fix for that, and it's called…Version Control.…Version Control is a repository for your code…that lets you save snapshots of your code…at different points in time.…This is invaluable, as it let's you see…the progression of your code,…but also provides a way for you…to go back in time and grab some code…should something catastrophic happen…to the current version that you're working with.…

There are some different Version Control systems,…but git is by and far the most popular.…Now, using git can scare away new developers…because it does involve using the command line…at least to install it,…but it's really not that difficult to get the hang of…and there are some visual tools that will let you manage git…if you don't want to hang around the command line.…Depending on where you are in your coding journey…

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6/9/2017

Once you have learned the basics of HTML, it's time to start exploring Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the language that makes HTML look great in the browser. This course gives you a tour of the possibilities, showing what CSS is capable of doing and the basics you need to make it work for you. Join Carrie Dils as she explains what CSS is and how it works with HTML, discusses authoring options, and covers common CSS concepts such as the CSS box model and how to work with fonts and color. Plus, she demonstrates how to structure a page with CSS, maintain CSS with version control, work with media queries, and more.